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Doc. 8447
17 June 1999
Election of a member of the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of Georgia1
Communication
Committee of Ministers
Letter from the Deputy Secretary General to the President of the Assembly, dated 9 June 1999
Mr President,
Pursuant to the decision of the Ministers' Deputies (...), I have the honour to transmit to you the list of candidates for the post of Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Georgia.
In the course of their informal exchange of views concerning this list, the Deputies saw no reason to change the order of the candidates as presented in the letter of the President of the Republic of Georgia.
...
Signed:
Hans Christian KRÜGER
President of Georgia
Tbilisi, 17 May 1999
Your Excellency,
I have the honour to submit herewith the following candidates for the election of the judges to the new European Court of Human Rights:
1. Mindia Ugrekhelidze
Chairman of the Supreme Court of Georgia
2. Teimuraz Bakradze
Minister-Counsellor
Permanent Mission of Georgia to the United Nations Office and other International Organisations in Geneva
3. Eric Svanidze
Head of Internal Law Department
General Prosecutors Office of Georgia
May I also enclose curricula vitae of the aforementioned candidates.
Please accept, Your Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration.
Eduard Shevardnadze
His Excellency
Mr Daniel Tarschys
Secretary General
Council of Europe
Strasbourg
Curriculum Vitae
Mindia Ugrekhelidze
I. Personal details
Sex: male
Date and place of birth: 19 May 1942, Kutaisi, Georgia
Nationality: Georgian
II. Education and academic and other qualifications
- Law Faculty of Tbilisi State University, 1963
- Doctor of Law; Cand. Sci. (Law) thesis: "Rationale of Criminal Carelessness" (1974)
- Prize of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia, awarded for the study: "Towards the Psychological Nature of Negligence" (1974)
- Highest judge title (1991)
- Grant of Max-Planck International Society, Freiburg (FRG), 1995
- Special linguistic training course of Goethe Institute in Freiburg (1995)
III. Professional activities
a. Legal activities
- Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics and Law of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia (1963-74)
- Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics and Law of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia (1974-76)
- Assistant Professor of the Criminal Law Chair at Tbilisi State University (1976 - to the present)
- Head of the Chair of Modern Law at the Technical University of Georgia (1995 - to the present)
- Chairman of the Supreme Court of Georgia (1990 - to the present)
b. Scientific and practical activities
- Deputy Manager of the Department of Science and Education (1983-86)
- Pro-Rector at Tbilisi Technical University (1986-88)
- Member of the State Constitutional Commission (1993-95)
- Head of Judicial Reform Working Group (1993-95)
- Co-Chairman of the Governmental Committee of Judicial Reform (1994-97)
- Participation in the elaboration of the Model Penal Code of Russia (1985-87)
- Participation in the drafting of the new Penal Code of Georgia (1995-99)
c. International scientific internships
- Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, 1995
- ABA Judicial Education Programmes in the USA (1991, 1994, 1996)
d. Participation in international scientific fora
- Judicial Training Programme, organised by ABA, Texas, USA (1991)
- International Conference on the Protection of Human Rights, Syracuse, Italy (1991)
- Official visit to the UK, organised by HM Government, London (1993)
- International Conference of the Chairmen of Constitutional and Supreme Courts, Strasbourg (1993, 1339, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998)
- XV International Congress of Penal Law, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1994)
- On the occasion of the expertise of the draft Constitution of Georgia, Chicago, USA (1994)
- Conference on the prevention of corruption, Rome (1996)
- II International Conference on Refugee and Asylum Law, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (1997)
- Conference on the expertise of draft penal and procedural codes of Georgia, Leiden, the Netherlands (1997)
- Colloquium on the implementation of the 11th protocol on the European Court of Human Rights, Potsdam, FRG (1997)
- Conference on the reflection of norms of humanitarian law in national legislation, Geneva, Switzerland (1997)
- III International Conference of Refugee Law Judges, Ottawa, Canada (1998)
- Judicial training programme, organised by the Avoués National Chamber of the Courts of Appeal of France, Paris (1999)
IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights
a. Lecturing activities
- Lectures at Tbilisi State University Law and International Faculties (1975 to the present)
- Lectures at Georg-town University Law School in USA (Washington) and FRG (Passau) (1994-1996)
- Commenting different issues of human rights protection on television and radio programmes
b. Participation in international projects
- Establishment and organisation of a human rights centre at the Supreme Court of Georgia for the study, analysis, generalisation and dissemination of experience of the new European Court of Human Rights and other international courts
c. Organisation of publishing activities
- Adoption and publication of resolutions and recommendations of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of Georgia "On Basic Principles and Trends in the Activities of Republican Courts in the period of Restoration of State Independence of Georgia" (1991); "On the Presumption of Innocence and the Right of Defence..." (1992); "On Victims Rights in Criminal Proceedings" (1992); "On Judicial Sentence" (1994); "On Investors' Activities..." (1999)
- Publication of a Georgian translation of the USA Constitution (1993)
- Publication of the book "The Challenge of Democracy..." by K. Janda, J.M. Berry and J. Goldman (1995)
- Translation and publication of America's Declaration of Independence (1996)
- Translation and publication of the textbook: "The Art of Compromise: A System of Government by those Governed" (1997)
- Translation of Recommendation No. R (94) 12 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the independence, efficiency and role of judges (1999)
- Translation and preparation for the printer of the "European Charter on the Statute for Judges" (1999)
V. Public activities
- Editor in Chief of the newspaper Akhali Sakartvelo ("New Georgia") (1988-90)
- Deputy of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia (1990)
- Member of the World Jurist Association (1996 - to the present)
- Member of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges (1998 - to the present)
- Head of the Georgian National Group of the International Association of Criminal Law (1996)
- Member of the editiorial board of the Georgian Encyclopedia (1994 - to the present)
VI. Publications and other works
1. Judicial power, Martlmsajulebis matsne ("Herald of Justice"), 1993, N3.
2. Protection of judicial independence in Georgia, Courts of Ultimate Appeal. The Constitutional and Supreme Courts of the New Democracies of Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Second International Conference, Palais de l'Europe, Strasbourg, France, 24-25 October.
3. Human Rights and the Court in the Republic of Georgia. Courts of the New Democracies of Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Second International Conference, Palais de l'Europe, Strasbourg, France.
4. The International Criminal Court, Martlmsajulebis matsne, 1997, N2.
5. Défence des droits de l'Homme, normes européennes, Constitution de la République georgienne et perspectives d'évolution. Mélanges Rolv Ryssdal.
6. The Judicial Reform at the Crossroads. Martlmsajulebis matsne, 1998, N2-3.
7. The making of an Independent Court in the Georgian Constitutional System of Division of Power (in co-authorship with Ms E. Gotsiridze).
8. The European Court of Human Rights facing reforms. Saparlamento utsqebani ("Parliamentary Register"), 8 October 1997, N41.
9. Towards the interpretation of causal nexus in criminal law, Matsne, 1971, N1.
10. Some questions of negligence in the practice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, Sabchota samartali, 1977, N4.
11. Culpability in offences of hazard, Metsniereba, 1980.
12. Criminal omission, Georgian Encyclopedia, 1986, vol. 10.
13. Criminal responsibility for the destruction of monuments of history and culture, Sabchota samartali, 1981, N4.
14. El abandono criminal en pelegro y la culpaen las delictos sin resultato, XI congres international de derecho. Comparada, Caracas, 1982.
15. The dialectics of objective and subjective in a victimogenic situation. Collected Papers, Tbilisi-Jena, 1984.
16. Criminalisation of negligent behaviour and the ontologic structure of crime (methodological aspect). Collected Papers, Moscow, 1984.
17. Die Bedeutungs des Schuldgehalts der Tat im Strafrecht. Zweites Deutsch-Sowjetisches Kolloqvium Über Strafrect und Kriminologie. Nomos Verlags Gesselschaft, Baden-Baden, 1984, N2.
18. Les biorythmes et la planification des mesures de précaution. La planification des mesures de lutte contre la délinquence. Travaux du Colloque de politique criminelle et de défence sociale. Paris, 1984.
The total number of published articles is about 80.
VII. Languages
Mother tongue: Georgian (speaking, reading, writing)
Official languages: English (speaking, reading, writing)
Other languages: Russian (speaking, reading, writing)
German (reading)
Curriculum Vitae
Mr Teimuraz Bakradze
13, Shatberashvili st., Tbilisi, 380079, Georgia
Private tel: (99532)-22 06 86; 34 53 86
In Geneva, Switzerland - 1202 - Parc Château-Bonquet 26
Tel: 41 22 919 10 10; Fax: 41 22 733 90 33
Date of birth: 5 February, 1950
Place of birth: Tbilisi, Georgia
Marital status: Married, one daughter
Education
1967-72: Law Faculty of Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. Passed Georgian National Bar exams.
1977-81: Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the former USSR, Moscow. Post-graduate student. Defended a dissertation in international law.
Work experience
1972-77: Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. Assistant of the Rector of University.
1981-91: A procurator at the Procurators Office of Georgia. Deputy Head of the Department of Judicial Organs of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia. A judge on criminal cases of first instance, Tbilisi Municipal Court. A judge on criminal cases of cassation instance at the Supreme Court of Georgia.
1991-92: State Committee of Foreign Economic Relations of Georgia, Tbilisi, Head of the Department of International Law.
1993-97: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, Tbilisi. Head of the Department of International Law. Responsibilities include supervision over the legal analysis of international treaties; preparation for the accession to UN, European and other international conventions, etc. Mediated six seminars and workshops in Georgia under the auspices of the Council of Europe on the relevant topics.
Guest-Representative, Steering Committee on Human Rights of the Council of Europe, 1996, 1997.
The concept drafter for the UNHCR's Project for the Government of Georgia on Strengthening Capacities and Infrastructures for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (GEO/95/AHB/13).
1997 September - currently: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Permanent Mission of Georgia to the UN Office and other International Organisations at Geneva. Primary responsibilities include close co-operation with UN Human Rights Commission and ILC (International Law Commission). Responsible for communication with the special rapporteurs on the question of torture (Mr Nigel Rodley) and on independence of judges and lawyers of the Commission on Human Rights (Mr Dato Param Cumaraswamy).
Deputy Head of the delegation of Georgia, 54th and 55th Sessions of the UN Commission of Human Rights, Geneva, March-April 1998, 1999.
Activities and selected honours
Awarded the degree of Docent (Senior Lecturer) of Jurisprudence. A nominee by CSCE participating states for a SCSE Procedure for Peaceful Settlement of Disputes, Senior Lecturer of Law Faculty, Tbilisi State University.
Languages
Georgian (native), Russian and English (excellent), French (fair).
Publications
Author of numerous publications on international law and human rights.
Curriculum Vitae
Eric Svanidze
I. Personal details
Sex: male
Date and place of birth: 11 September, 1962, Riga, Latvia
Nationality: Georgian
II. Education and academic and other qualifications
Law Faculty, Latvian State University, Law Faculty, Tbilisi State University (1979-84)
Subject of thesis: "Guilt in Criminal Law"
Speciality: Lawyer
III. Professional activities
a. Legal activities
Investigator of the Prosecutor's Office of the Kalinin region of Tbilisi (1984-85)
Special assistant of the Prosecutor of the Republic of Georgia (1985-86)
Prosecutor of the Investigative Department of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Georgia (1986-93)
Prosecutor of the Customs Laws Enforcement Department of the Prosecutor General's Office of Georgia (1993-94)
Head of the International Law Department of the Prosecutor General's Office of Georgia (1994 - present post)
b. Scientific and practical activities
Author of the draft CIS Agreement on witness protection and other criminal proceedings participants
Participation in elaboration of law on the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia
Participation in elaboration of the draft CIS Agreement on Combating of Terrorism, CIS Agreement on Co-operation of Law Enforcement Agencies, etc
c. International internships
Programme of the US Government on International Crime Issues (1996)
Several programmes and activities, held by the Council of Europe and the OSCE
d. Participation in international forums:
Seventeenth Biennial Conference on the Law of the World, Montreal, August 1995
Multilateral meeting (organised by the Council of Europe) "The Procuratura in State Governed by the Rule of Law", Moscow, 1997
Scientific conference of CIS countries "International Co-operation in Combating Organised Crime", Minsk, 1997
e. Participation in international diplomatic activities:
Session of the Board of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of CIS Countries, 1996 (expert)
Session of the Board of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of CIS countries, 1997 (expert)
Meetings of law enforcement experts of CIS countries, 1996-99
IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights
a. Lecturing activities:
Lectures for participants of training courses of the General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia
Lecture for students of the Law Faculty of the University of Leiden
b. Participation in international projects:
Intergovernmental Programme of CIS Countries on Combating Organised Crime in
1997-2000
Co-operation with international and local NGOs
V. Public activities
World Jurist Association (1995)
VI. Publications
Articles for Georgian newspapers and magazines on international law and co-operation issues
VII. Languages
Mother tongue: Georgian (speaking, reading, writing)
Official languages: English (speaking, reading, writing)
Other languages: Russian (speaking, reading, writing)
Latvian (speaking, reading)